24 daily Christmas missions for KS1 and Lower KS2 – science, maths, reading and writing in 10 minutes a day, with editable slides, worksheets and answers. Father Christmas’s sleigh has crashed into a snowdrift! Dave and Professor Einstein need your class to help fix it. Every day, children complete one short mission to repair one part of the sleigh. Complete all 24 and the sleigh flies on Christmas Eve. What’s included Two editable PowerPoints: one for KS1 (Years 1–2) and one for Lower KS2 (Years 3–4). Each day has a story slide, a mission slide and an answers slide, with answers also in the speaker notes. 24 mission sheets at each level, one page per day, in Word and PDF Answer sheets for both levels Sleigh Repair Tracker poster: the class colours in one part after each mission (print at A4 or A3) Christmas Rescue Crew certificate Teacher notes with timings, curriculum links and differentiation BONUS: Fix the Sleigh escape room, a 45-minute end-of-term lesson with slides, clue cards at both levels, a team sheet and a teacher answer sheet Curriculum coverage Science: forces and friction, materials, states of matter, light and shadows, electricity, magnets, sound, adaptation, insulators, floating and sinking, seasons and fair testing Maths: statistics, sorting with Venn diagrams, position and direction, time, measurement and money English: retrieval, instructions, letter writing and newspaper reports Why teachers will love it It’s ready to go every morning: about 10 minutes per mission, with no preparation. Both levels follow the same story, which makes it ideal for mixed-age classes. It works even when term ends before the 24th, as the teacher notes explain how to start early or double up. Every mission ends with a Professor’s Fact to spark discussion. Created by a PGCE-qualified teacher. Part of the Brain Burst range starring Dave and Professor Einstein.

A 92-page printable Year 3–4 activity book: 14 story-led missions on rocks, soils, fossils and volcanoes, with curriculum links and answers. Dave and Professor Einstein drive the Marvellous Mole-Mobile from the garden to the centre of the Earth and back. Each mission has an illustration, a short story and two activities. What’s included 14 missions, each with a title page, a full-page illustration, a story, two activities and a “Mission complete” page Teacher notes, with ideas for science, geography, reading and homework A mission map with English National Curriculum links Answers for every activity A Junior Earth Explorer certificate Topics covered: soils, rock types, caves, the water cycle, crystals, fossils, earthquakes, volcanoes, the layers of the Earth, and magnets and compasses, plus maths problems and reading comprehension. A4 and ready to print in colour or black and white.